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uh harpercollins said, uh, right. she's out surfing. so. yeah. sorry harpercollins.nd you're fired. so that was it. and that was the end of my career as a children's author. i don't blame anyone else at for all not speaking up about this, however they feel, because, yeah , they know they're going to lose their jobs. , they know they're going to lose their jobs . but the kind of lose their jobs. but the kind of big corporate oceans big ups at the corporate oceans and the companies, um, if they would to stand up it and say, no, we're not going to base our company's policy and hiring on, like the opinions of some anonymous trolls on twitter , you anonymous trolls on twitter, you know, but, well, they extraordinary thing is, there's several things here i'm fascinated by. >> it was why don't they if you put something out on twitter, why don't they identify. hello >> hello. oh, you very disgusting. aren't you ? oh, disgusting. aren't you? oh, don't listen to her. oh. you're lovely. where are you going? >> but if you put something out on twitter , why don't they make on twi
uh harpercollins said, uh, right. she's out surfing. so. yeah. sorry harpercollins.nd you're fired. so that was it. and that was the end of my career as a children's author. i don't blame anyone else at for all not speaking up about this, however they feel, because, yeah , they know they're going to lose their jobs. , they know they're going to lose their jobs . but the kind of lose their jobs. but the kind of big corporate oceans big ups at the corporate oceans and the companies, um, if they...
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from harpercollins at the time who is the one who really helped me with the structure. but you start out by telling readers or thing that happened. what i did a site actually start in the preface something of a preface. i give all of the memories i had before, i started writing the book that was january predicted write down those memories before i began researching and writing for thus the first few pages. then i tell the whole story and then i go back and reconstruct what happens in several other parts including my parents experience a and some family context. in reconstructing what happens in the desert and finally what happened when i gotot home. and of all the books i have written those the hardest book to structure. i'm the one i have never written a whole draft and restructured and part of that was difficult but i'm really glad that i did. >> initial structure it was different. >> it aptly was yes it was. >> you talk about what historians do, generally only write history we tend to look at documents. and we tend to believe the documents are actually going to deliv
from harpercollins at the time who is the one who really helped me with the structure. but you start out by telling readers or thing that happened. what i did a site actually start in the preface something of a preface. i give all of the memories i had before, i started writing the book that was january predicted write down those memories before i began researching and writing for thus the first few pages. then i tell the whole story and then i go back and reconstruct what happens in several...
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context opposed to just its geopolitical political context and david jumped at the chance and went to harpercollins, the publishers. they of course, how we were going to divvy up the chapters and i said, well, david's going to write about all the countries he's invaded. and so and i and he also wrote the vietnam chapter, the crucial vietnam chapter, and that i was going to fill in the rest and what we did was to once we'd written our chapters, we them backwards and forwards to each other in quite literally thousands of emails in order to create the finished product. you've said many of you have them very kindly bought today. i should just note that andrew and i have done number of events together over the years we don't remember when we first met at long had admiration his work like many of you who brought some of his earlier books. napoleon george the third. what is he the most missed under misunderstood king of yeah, the last king of america came america. and so the first i think, was we did five events just on the churchill book. we had so much fun with the first one. i do a lot of events in, ne
context opposed to just its geopolitical political context and david jumped at the chance and went to harpercollins, the publishers. they of course, how we were going to divvy up the chapters and i said, well, david's going to write about all the countries he's invaded. and so and i and he also wrote the vietnam chapter, the crucial vietnam chapter, and that i was going to fill in the rest and what we did was to once we'd written our chapters, we them backwards and forwards to each other in...
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um, we'll have to talk to harpercollins, see if it's you know, if you can still work for us and 2 pm,k time. yeah. uh, harper collins said, uh, right . she's out surfing, so. right. she's out surfing, so. yeah. sorry harper collins say you're out and you're fired. so that was it. and that was the end of my career as a children's author. i don't blame anyone else at for all not speaking up about this however they feel, because, yeah , they they know because, yeah, they they know they're going to lose their jobs . big ups that . but the kind of big ups that the and the the corporations and the companies, um , if they would companies, um, if they would stand up to it and say, i know we're not going to base our company's hiring on company's policy and hiring on like the opinions of some anonymous trolls on twitter , you anonymous trolls on twitter, you know, but , well, the know, but, well, the extraordinary thing is that several things here i'm fascinated by was, why don't they, if you put something out on twitter , why don't they on twitter, why don't they identify ? identify? >> hello,
um, we'll have to talk to harpercollins, see if it's you know, if you can still work for us and 2 pm,k time. yeah. uh, harper collins said, uh, right . she's out surfing, so. right. she's out surfing, so. yeah. sorry harper collins say you're out and you're fired. so that was it. and that was the end of my career as a children's author. i don't blame anyone else at for all not speaking up about this however they feel, because, yeah , they they know because, yeah, they they know they're going to...
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literary end up closer to pantheon random house, closer to crown you know simon schuster got scribner and harpercollins has echo like so and scribner jesmyn ward and riverhead at random house publishes lauren groff. i mean, i think these people are great novelists. it's just it's it seems a lot more interesting to me to slow down a second to bracket that question. oh, did make it better or worse and try to actually dig into of the mechanics of what happened to look at some of the complexity and to see that there's some good things that happened a lot of bad things that happen. i think we're living in a moment like wonderful small presses. and i think a lot of those small presses that i mean, there were no nonprofits until they were emerged out of rejecting conglomeration. so that's one way of thinking dialectically about, you know, we have all these we development hub city and of course great wall which is now massive and coffeehouse is very large. but all these smaller nonprofits too, who are doing some of the incredible work small independent presses. it's all part of this larger that i think we have
literary end up closer to pantheon random house, closer to crown you know simon schuster got scribner and harpercollins has echo like so and scribner jesmyn ward and riverhead at random house publishes lauren groff. i mean, i think these people are great novelists. it's just it's it seems a lot more interesting to me to slow down a second to bracket that question. oh, did make it better or worse and try to actually dig into of the mechanics of what happened to look at some of the complexity and...
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and i see my editor, the front row, the wonderful, amazing gille from harpercollins at, the time now simon schuster, who who the one who really helped me with this structure and said why don't you start out by telling readers that happened. so what i did was i started in the preface something, a preface. i, i give all the memories i had before i started writing the book, and that was genuine. i did write down those memories before. i began researching and writing. so that's the first few pages, then i tell the story and then i go back and reconstruct what happened in several other parts. so including parents experience and some family, and then reconstruct in what happened in the desert and then finally what happened when i got home. and that was of the books i've written, it was the hardest book to structure and the one i've never written full draft of a book and then restructured it. and doing that was difficult. but i'm really glad that i did. so the initial structure was from what what absolutely was. yes, it was. when you talk about what historians do, generally, when we write,
and i see my editor, the front row, the wonderful, amazing gille from harpercollins at, the time now simon schuster, who who the one who really helped me with this structure and said why don't you start out by telling readers that happened. so what i did was i started in the preface something, a preface. i, i give all the memories i had before i started writing the book, and that was genuine. i did write down those memories before. i began researching and writing. so that's the first few pages,...
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, 20th century studios, amazon on apple audible booksellers book of the month, your google has shed harpercollins hearst ingram macmillan and scholastic. additional thanks to the susan est and kenneth wollack foundation, the stephen and joyce tatler charitable trust, deborah wiley and karen marcus, dollar. and to all those who donate it. thank you. thank you all all. so. we now have a brief video. thank you again for being here. and thank for sharing our belief the power of books. i fell in love with reading when started the anne of green gables series at my school's library in fourth grade. my favorite teacher gave courage to terabithia to us. it was not like anything i had to read before this controversy. it had some words that seemed too naughty. we have a tradition. around the age of 13, we were given songs of black folk by dubois, and we read it together as a family. my little gifted me with 100 years of solitude. it's the momentum. it's the magic. the idea that you might go into a book and then come out a completely different person. there are so many ways to engage with the written word. t
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